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title: Video Stream
slug: legacy-docs/video-stream
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createdAt: 2025-03-11T06:56:09.059Z
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This page / section pertains to **BrightAuthor Classic**, our legacy app. **BrightSign Author **is our latest app for managing content and players.

Development of BrightAuthor Classic has largely ceased and the app will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BrightSign Author.
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This state allows you to play an IP stream. All networked players can play streaming video. See [this page](docId\:o9GIleB8eiEJpZhqRe7Q5) to learn more about supported video formats and codecs for IP streaming.

- **State Name**: Specify a unique name for the stream state.
- **URL for video stream**: Enter a valid URL for the stream. The URL can also include a number of optional parameters:
- Specify a [User Variable](docId:97ugz4dVQlqzVJ1EGJ_Y4) to replace all or part of the URL. To include the value of the variable in the URL, enter the variable name between two sets of dollar signs (e.g. "http\://www\.example.com/streams/$$my\\\_URLvar$$").
- Append the "latency" and "jitter" parameters to modify the default latency (see [this How-to](docId:0Tioy9PJdGG4G25yGBnib) for more details).
- Append the "buffersize", "vcdbsize", and "acdbsize" parameters to modify the default streaming buffer size (see [this How-to](docId:0Tioy9PJdGG4G25yGBnib) for more details).
- Append the "lowlatency" parameter to reduce the default latency.
- **Time on screen**: Specify the duration (in seconds) that the stream will be played. This option is only available in non-interactive presentations. To customize the duration of a stream in an interactive presentation, use a [Timeout](docId\:UnTTDBsTwdsXeogHb2qF6) or [Media End](docId:2syvvhjxfc9-ac5Cdt9n_) event.

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Please do not use ports 8888 or 9999 since these ports may be used by BrightSignOS.
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